Electronest just released a new website: Seascape, for Susan Collins. Website has been built and designed in collaboration with OK-RM, and commisioned by Film and Video Umbrella.
* The show will open on the 4th of April at De La Warr pavillion in Bexhill-on-Sea. More info on the website.
March 29, 2009
Categories: art, designing, electronest, electronic presence, internal, memory, web design, website
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This post is made of a few short connection in between 3 things; all of them are linked to notions like future proof, open source and hackability.
(center picture: Nicolas Nova; left: Assembling, right: Miltos Manetas )
* This morning i’ve read a very nice post by Nicolas (Pasta & Vinegar); titled buildings as flows and process, it shows a couple of pipes in the streets of North America which are depicting the infrastructure of the building itself.
* Somehow it reminded me of that post i wrote on Assembling about ‘The beauty of designing the underlying structure’ which somehow linked a large biro drawing by Amandine, a carpet by Britta Boehne, a series of paintings by Milto Manetas and my reflections on my own practice.
* This morning i was also dwelving in R-Echos archives and came across this post (original post is here): Social Networks Evil Twin Attacks which depicts an attack made on an individual using the social networks in vogue with the web 2.0, Markus the other day was speaking about this kind of concerns and issues with services like Facebook.
October 07, 2008
Categories: designing, memory, notes, thinking loud
Tags: design, hackability, infrastructure, methodology, process, structure
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Your name is Hugo.
I’m sitting on my chair in London, it’s 17:59
You searched for the word defibrillator on Twitter.
You found me.
That’s already (kind of) strange enough but that was not enough:
You subscribed to my updates on Twitter.
I received an email alerting me about it.
I check your Twitter page; not much info.
I check your website links (top right hand corner)
You manage a ICD user group blog in the Bay Area (SF I supposed)
I almost cried reading a few posts on your blog: it felt so close of what I experienced not so long ago, all the questions, the doubts… physically and mentally.
I read more and find this pictures of a tree encapsulated.
* picture by Hugo Campos - found here
I always found these natural behaviour beautiful - suddenly it struck my mind and realise why this picture is there, on your blog: the same thing is happening inside my body. I have a an embed object inside too, encapsulated.
I republished your picture on R-Echos: the tree and its metal protection.
It is a beautiful metaphor.
I twited about it and say hello.
You twited back with a link: a google map where those trees are, Google includes a 360 view in this area (not that common here yet) and suddenly I feel like super close to your reality knowing perfectly you are thousands of kilometers away.
I had to say it: It’s a strange feeling of closeness.
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September 04, 2008
Categories: electronic presence, memory, thinking loud
Tags: body, electronic presence, icd
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We launched a new website: Tlk Tlk - this is a project in which we would like to share the events we are attending, to promote nice things we come across in real life where friends are organising, or just giving a hand, or sometimes events organised by complete stranger but we like what they do…
The idea is a continuous curration of things we are interrested in, a littl ebit like R-Echos but for cultural events.
August 29, 2008
Categories: event, exhibition, experiments, memory, newly released, notes, offline, project, talk
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* in fact it is out ‘already’: R-Echos issue 1
July 22, 2008
Categories: book, bookmark, collection, designing, electronest, memory, next things, offline, open source, thinking loud, typography
Tags: objects, r-echos, republish
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June 30, 2008
Categories: memory, website
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Defragmentation’s process aims at reducing the fragmentation of data by concatenating parts stored in separate locations: a (partially) new visualisation interface made its apparition on R-Echos; its url is: http://r-echos.net/defragmentation/
It’s quite simple, and it shows the last 500 posts, each post represented by a clickable color coded square (a color is equivalent to a post’s category). The most recent articles are on the top left, while the older are at the bottom right. When hovering on a square, title and first image of the post are displayed. It allows for a quick visual browse, a single click brings up the article. It is a rework based on the former interface of R-Echos which was using lines of colors.
This visualisation was inspired by a re-post a little while ago in Pierre’s reblog (about blogs); the original post coming from Social Fictions, whose ideas was much more about the software way of processing with a limited amount of memory, mimicking palimpsest: a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.
This blog/blogject is a Janus head, 2 faced web0.0 monster sharing a memory-system styled on a palimpsest. When the limited memory it has is filled to maximum capacity it needs to reorganise it to make space otherwise it can’t store any more new blog entries. In doing this it has to try not to forget the old ones, but this is not always done with much success as memories confabulated over time become increasingly unrecognisable. This making space is done by the blogject and its functioning is modelled on how our brains interleave our memories: by dreaming. The resulting dreams are what the blogject publishes online.
The relationship between blog (and someone using it) and the blog-ejects rendered from/within this input is symbiotic. The blogject only starts functioning when memory reached a tipping point (being full), the blog can continue to accept new entries for as long as the blogject succeeds in freeing space, to which again there is an upper limit.
As an experiment in writing by a selfless-self (adjacent to automatic writing and the cut-up) there are two angles to this system: the blogject’s output and the stuff stored in the blog as its increasingly looses its integrity, are both written by a non-self. The purpose or meaning of this writing is not in the writing itself but in the interpretation of it by the ones submitting writing to its memory. This property too it shares with dreams.
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A blogject, not to be confused with a slog (a sensor log), is the bot rephrased in the language of the blogosphere. Unlike bots, software-based attempts at making computers speak with us in our own language, that only have to respond on user input, blogjects in theory are pro-active and possess their own threshold function to decide when to produce something. Obviously, systems possessing artificial consciousness are non-existent, and bots and blogjects cannot but interpret/generate input of which is the meaning is always relative to templates in its database not relative to the outside world as you would suspect a true AI would.
Each cube represents a segment of a colour-coded memory. Each black dot represents a free segment. While the palimpsest has free segments entries are added from left to right and from top to bottom. When filled, dreaming commences (and the blogject will eject-text) to make space. This results in chains sharing a segment and releasing one in the process. The neat crystalline order inside the memory that exists in the beginning will slowly become chaotic.
The ideas behind the BlogJect are really interesting; it would be interesting to see such behaviour enacted on the R-Echos project, like evasive or digressive memory - it would never give the correct answer, but an almost correct one, though creating a sort of dérive inside the archive of the magazine.
It is also quite exciting to consider web software and web design aiming at the apparition and growth of a certain kind of new intelligent entities limited in some ways - a form of software reification, somehow.
January 26, 2008
Categories: memory, newly released, r-echos, thinking loud
Tags: AI, color, software, visualisation
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Yesterday, I was wondering about Process in my early morning readings, today I’m looking at cause & consequences…
The magic number: 7.01 and how to get prepared for the worst…
Yesterday, I was wondering about Process in my early morning readings - in the flow I came to speak about Fischli & Weiss, 2 swiss artists who did the ‘How To Work Better’ a kind of process manifesto.
They also did a film most of you have certainly heard about: ‘Der Lauf Der Dinge’ (aka The Way Things Go). The video - which I loved so much since I first saw it in the Marc Bretillot’s course back in the days when I was in fine art in ESAD in Reims - is described as follow:
Film stills from Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s The Way Things Go (1987); on Youtube there’s a short extract and a link where to buy your own copy.
Inside a warehouse, a precarious structure 70-100 feet long was constructed from various items. If this is set in motion, a chain reaction ensues fire, water, gravity and chemistry determine the life-cycle of objects and things. So begins a story about cause and effect, mechanism and art, improbability and precision.
Well … yesterday, my beloved MacBook suddenly died. I mean it freezed, and then refused to boot, displaying a folder with a question mark. That seems to be a very well known issue with a certain type of Seagate hard drive with a firmware revision 7.01 - if you are the happy owner of a MacBook, I encourage you to check your serial numbers.
3 screenshots on how to retrieve your serial number. In the background a nice trick from lifehacker: Keep A Scratch Pad Of The Day, I am also a moleskine-geek which I think is a good way of envisionning vital data backup
Myself, I have been lucky enough to see the early reports about this Seagate harddrive issue and I had luckily time to backup the faulty drive. I nonetheless lost a few files and a few precious hours of rest, I also stressed a bit but I can’t help but think there‘s definitely some sort of zen to practice: learn to (better) let go and let’s things go the way things go… but as I deeply appreciate the precepts from the chinese tactician Sun Tzu (see KD01k The Art Of war), I also like to keep things ready for the worst: all I have to do now is to replace the dead and faulty seagate harddrive (there’s a PDF from Apple documenting the procedure to remove and replace a hard drive from a macbook - nothing too scary once you know how it used to be in the recent past) by a spare new Samsung, taken from a mini Porsche LaCie drive I bought in November (just in case) and re install everything back in its order.
KD01k - ‘The Art Of War’ the original text written in 3000 BC by Sun Tzu and his disciples is designed according to its own structure; a generative design principle is applied with a set of rules based on statistics and ponctuation.
* Marc Bretillot website Cullinaire Design et autres façons.
January 14, 2008
Categories: electronest, generative, memory, offline, thinking loud
Tags: apple, art, hardware, process, work, zen
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I know it somehow old news, but I finally got my hands on the copies of Altitude in which i’m featured for two of my projects on a double spread:
One is the limited edition of Sun Tzu «The Art of War» - 13 generative readings of the original text written by the chinese tactician.
- Limited edition of a set of 13 books; each of them is a re-interpretation of «The Art of War» written by Sun Tzu around 3,000 BC Designed using home-made software specifically developed to take in account the structure of the text (text analysis + statistics).
The second featured work is the Corporate Annual Report for an edition company .TXT - made in collaboration with Pierre Terrier (who recently founded Koilinen, with Franz Hoffman)
- Patterns, text & display. Designed using home-made software specifically developed for the branding of a publishing company
I quite like the description of the content (it somehow really makes you feel proud of your work):
Altitude
Contemporary Swiss Graphic Design
A new wave of intellectually rigorous and iconoclastic Swiss designers are carving their niche in a new graphic language. By combining traditional high quality “Swiss Style” with advanced media, they are giving rise to a progressive style of visual expression. Seven years after publishing “Swiss Graphic Design”, we present “Altitude” - a new generation of flourishing contemporary designers, giving insight into the impact, essence and diversity of the work and evaluating the significant evolution of illustration and typography in recent years.
An increasing number of designers are working internationally with interdisciplinary design practices in typography, vector graphics, photography, interiors and web design. They bring about an experimental, playful and humorous element while maintaining the minimalist approach and precision that gives Swiss Design its universally recognized trademark.
Altitude is an expansive volume that showcases and examines current trends as well as providing an analysis of contemporary Swiss Design through visuals, texts, interviews and commentary from the designers and editors themselves.
and BTW, I really like the way the book is bind, and the continuity of the red shadow on the spine:
March 09, 2007
Categories: book, designing, generative, internal, memory, newly released
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anti-chambre.net once again is under mutation; the hosted bits and pieces of experimentations will be transfered to new locations from now on.
here’s a list of the already transfered projects:
February 07, 2007
Categories: internal, memory, newly released
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this is an old edit of a video, introducing my MA researches about information fluxes. the main end product of it was a helmet, kind of personnal theatre which would plugs you to the infosphere in realtime.
click the image underneath to play the video in a new window
February 01, 2007
Categories: data beautification, memory, typography
Tags: brain, control, flux, info hub, installation, mass media diving, mmd, physical experience, poetic, tangible
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rd rc cr: radio remote controlled car.
a remote controlled tiny car is controlled by the Voice of America, a propaganda radio streamed over the net, by the american governement. the process use a voice recognition software (embedded in all macintosh) to generate the parameters to drive the tiny rc car.
on the hardware side, the remote controlled has been dismounted and slightly modified - the switches have been connected to the usb port (via a simple one-box interface) in order to allow the mac software to take control of the tiny car.
July 10, 2006
Categories: memory
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analog information is the fruit of a collective work which involves: juerg lehni, franz hoffman, pierre terrier and jerome rigaud.
there’s a video of the analog information being transmitted in between the computers.
May 27, 2006
Categories: memory, poetry, sound
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KD01k est une édition du traité de Sun Tzu «l’art de la guerre» en 13 volumes. Chacun des volumes donne une lecture de ce texte écrit entre le IVe et le Ve siècle avant Jésus Christ. Chacun des volumes est une lecture générative du texte; elle est basée sur une analyse statistique de la ponctuation, cette dernière engendrant la mise en forme du texte par lui-même, jusqu’à l’abstraction.
May 27, 2006
Categories: data beautification, designing, memory
Tags: book, coding, edition, generative, principle, rule
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this page contains some articles’ extracts and links - kind of news/blogs personnal review this page exists due to a hack in the project called «feedonfeeds».
find out more here: http://feedonfeeds.sourceforge.net/ the idea of the hack comes from eyebeam http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/archives/000076.html and also thanks to a discussion with christophe from fabric|ch http://www.fabric.ch/ / r - echos / is based on the feedonfeeds project. feedonfeeds is an opensource software elaborated at sourceforge which collect all the feeds from the website/blog you generally reads, and then display the recent updates. it’s exactly the same process as a newsreader, execpt that it works on line. the purpose of / r- echos / is that the news should be immediatly republished to output a kind of news review. the other objectives behind /r-echos/ is to re-design the information (information, which originally means giving forms)
May 27, 2006
Categories: memory, r-echos
Tags: info hub
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a simple stool connected to a nintendo nes to play with tetris.
May 27, 2006
Categories: memory, tangible
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the aim of this project is to have a look at statistic generated by access on the server disk space, trying to decrypt the beauty of these lines of codes representing the activity of my electronic presence, i attended to use them as what they are: raw data, to generate different way of representing these activities.
the continuation of this project took place under a new name: «electronic presence».
May 27, 2006
Categories: info hub, memory
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radio remote controlled car. a remote controlled tiny car is controlled by the Voice of America, a propaganda radio streamed over the net, by the american governement.
the process use a voice recognition software (embedded in all macintosh) to generate the parameters to drive the tiny rc car.
May 27, 2006
Categories: data beautification, memory, tangible
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Insert of images from the archive of anti-chambre: Images
May 27, 2006
Categories: internal, memory
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March 28, 2006
Categories: info hub, medias, memory, tangible
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